Top 94 Achieved Nothing Quotes
#1. When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
Laozi
#2. It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree ... I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.
Albert Pierrepoint
#3. Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.
Ogwo David Emenike
#4. 'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
Denis O'Hare
#5. Suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing:
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.
Nagarjuna
#7. In his life, after all, he had achieved nothing, had been totally unproductive. He couldn't make anyone else happy, and, of course, couldn't make himself happy. Happiness? He wasn't even sure what that meant.
Haruki Murakami
#8. If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
Brian Mulroney
#9. There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
Charles Krauthammer
#11. I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.
Paul Auster
#12. Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.
Bryan Kest
#13. Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach
#14. You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
Waris Ahluwalia
#15. Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
Dada Bhagwan
#18. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.
Carmine Gallo
#19. The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles
#20. The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
Robert Kennedy
#21. But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.
Siri Mitchell
#22. There is really nothing to be achieved here; only something to be accepted-the fact of your own divinity.
Paul Brunton
#23. I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.
Richard Virenque
#24. Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required.
Steven Erikson
#25. Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#26. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis
#27. The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo Burnett
#28. They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.
Wilbur Smith
#29. I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely Tyson
#30. Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
Denise Austin
#31. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#32. While it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.
Gosho Aoyama
#33. Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow
#34. Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.
Scott Belsky
#35. Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope.
Swami Satchidananda
#36. Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
Franz Grillparzer
#37. Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
Napoleon Hill
#38. Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#39. Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#40. But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?
Ford Madox Ford
#41. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
David Millar
#42. Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.
Robert Herjavec
#43. This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt, enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life.
Jeff Foster
#44. Greatness is achieved when you recognize your own strength. You become unstoppable! Nothing can prevent you from breaking free and claiming the victory.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#45. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Hannah Arendt
#46. I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
Nastia Liukin
#47. Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#48. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
#49. I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.
Clara Hughes
#50. Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
Bobby Davro
#51. I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.
Mark Burnett
#52. Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent!
Jerry Ring
#53. May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
Teresa Of Avila
#54. When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.
Enya
#55. Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#57. I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#58. Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for.
Osama Bin Laden
#59. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.
Leonard Woolf
#60. Nothing is achieved without toil.
Horace
#61. Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
Pankaj Mishra
#63. Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford
#64. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.
Anjelica Huston
#65. To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
Bertrand Russell
#66. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
Jane Addams
#70. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle
#71. It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks.
Robert Smithson
#72. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian Mercier
#73. Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
Swami Satchidananda
#74. He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.
E. M. Forster
#76. Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
John C. Maxwell
#77. There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it.
John Patrick Hickey
#78. My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.
Conan O'Brien
#79. There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
Barbara Mertz
#80. Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,
J.R.D. Tata
#81. Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.
Peter F. Hamilton
#82. Live today as if it was ur last and don't ever say it is impossible cos nothing great was achieved with ease
Gordon R. Dickson
#83. Nothing of value was ever achieved in the morning.
Lee Child
#84. What was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.
Terry Pratchett
#85. Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
Albert Einstein
#86. Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
Odilon Redon
#88. Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
Christopher Columbus
#89. Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.
Haidakhan Babaji
#90. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#92. Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.
Steven Redhead
#93. Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
Lailah Gifty Akita
